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Corundum var: Ruby
- Aliabad marbles, Aliabad, Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
- Ex. Chet Lemanski
- Small Cabinet, 7.6 x 7.3 x 2.2 cm
- Start Time: 09/21/2023 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 09/28/2023 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
- Winning Bid: $186
Item Description
Here we have an attractive representative example of the well-known Ruby specimens from Aliabad, Pakistan. This small cabinet piece came out of the ground in the early 2000s and features purplish-pink colored, translucent, hexagonal crystals measuring up to 1.0 cm on off-white Calcite/marble matrix. A few scattered pseudo-metallic golden bladed crystals of Phlogopite can be seen in a few spots. The piece shows good fluorescence under UV light.
From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #18851CL. Chet was born 1947 in started collecting minerals circa 1957. He worked briefly as a drill runner at the famous Sterling Mine, in Ogdensburg, New Jersey and from 1987 to 1990 he helped convert the mine into a public access mining museum. He has held the role of treasurer, vice president and president of the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society (FOMS), and has been a board member and vice president of the Franklin Mineral Museum. The rare copper arsenate, Lemanskiite was named in his honor in 1999.
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Bidding History
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$186 | 09/28/2023 6:30:50 pm (CDT) |
$176 | 09/28/2023 6:30:50 pm (CDT) |
$165 | 09/28/2023 6:21:23 am (CDT) |
$155 | 09/28/2023 6:21:23 am (CDT) |
$152 | 09/27/2023 10:35:22 pm (CDT) |
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$121 | 09/24/2023 10:24:12 pm (CDT) |
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$50 | 09/23/2023 8:11:22 pm (CDT) |
$45 | 09/22/2023 11:15:18 pm (CDT) |
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$10 | 09/21/2023 11:06:05 pm (CDT) |